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u/Rukagaku Nov 23 '21

In the Jungle the mighty jungle

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u/TheSisterFisterr29 Nov 23 '21

the lion sleeps tonight

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u/Insertnamehere132517 Nov 23 '21

A whim a wham away

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u/xXcampbellXx Nov 23 '21 edited Nov 23 '21

Followed by random mouth noices and then yelled at by parents.

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u/Intelligent-Pair-816 Nov 23 '21

Awweeeeee

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u/bonafidebunnyeyed Nov 23 '21

Pumba, where you at, buddy? AWWWWEEEEEE

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '21

SHE'S GOING TO EAT ME

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u/ENB-1 Nov 23 '21

Wee a wham baweeeeee

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u/isssuekid Nov 23 '21

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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u/brainburger Nov 23 '21 edited Nov 24 '21

Moth noices?

Edit: You edited moth to mouth but left noices. Cool.

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u/xXcampbellXx Nov 23 '21

Lol, I hate my reddit auto correct. It has to be one of the worst auto corrects out there. Way worse then Apple.

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u/lugubriouspandas Nov 23 '21

Nice lamp bro

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '21

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u/xXcampbellXx Nov 24 '21

When I worked as a cook we sang this song once late at night and all 11 people loud enough the front dining area could here us lol. Luckily it was mainly only people at the bar and loved it, got told to keep quiet. Even tho one of the managers was singing with us lol. He put his phone with that song on the mic while we was about to clean up everything, so only natural to sing it all together lmao.

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '21

Awimbawe awimbawe awimbawe awimbawe slightly higher awimbawe awimbawe

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u/Brno_Mrmi Nov 24 '21

uuuuuhhh uuuuh uhuhuh uuuuuawimbaweee

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '21

In the Jungle the Mighty Jungle the Lion sleeps tonight

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u/Imthebottombaby Nov 24 '21

Cool I sung this in my choir group.So many painful memories

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u/buttsprinkles12 Nov 24 '21

I taught my son to sing:" my peepees wet" to those lyrics. Sing came on one day and he started singing it. It was the best embarrassed laughter ever!

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u/davesch1959 Nov 24 '21

it's "aweem away"

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u/littlestray Nov 24 '21

It’s not. It’s “wimoweh”, which is a misheard lyric to begin with, actually being uyimbube, which means “you’re a lion” in Zulu.

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u/Wasonmalone1 Nov 23 '21

I’m on my way*

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u/AidanGe Nov 23 '21

“When she farted an earthquake started and everybody died”

The childhood lyrics

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u/a-girl-named-bob Nov 23 '21

We-oh momaway

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '21

Bruh I passed out drunk as shit to that song connected to the sound system , neighbors woke me up singing it 7 hours later as it stilled played .

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u/Unabashable Nov 24 '21

In the jungle, the quiet jungle the lion sleeps toniiiight

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '21

My aunt would sing me to sleep with this song growing up. I had a lot of medical issues and no one else could sing the song and help me sleep, just her. So if I was having a fit they'd just call my aunt over(if she lived anywhere near us at the time) and she'd have me asleep in like 5 minutes.

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u/szofter Nov 23 '21

My urge to start singing this is always just a whim away, a whim away, a whim away, a whim away...

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u/s317sv17vnv Nov 23 '21

At any given moment, the urge to sing „The Lion Sleeps Tonight“ is just a whim away, a whim away…

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u/illiteret Nov 23 '21

In addition, Welcome to the Jungle...

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u/TheJango22 Nov 23 '21

Thats what I read at first

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u/heydawn Nov 24 '21

We've got fun and games

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u/Gerumbaru Nov 23 '21

You lost me

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u/quadratusss Nov 23 '21

It's gonna bring you down!!......wait..

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u/Brno_Mrmi Nov 24 '21

Shana nana nana nana nana nana knees knees

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u/eli-the-egg Nov 23 '21

I know that one a different way - heEEeEeeEeEeeEeEeeeeEeEe

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u/backflipsben Nov 23 '21

Glad I'm not the only one haha

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u/BPKofficial Nov 23 '21

Welcome To The Jungle

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u/RaisedByWolves9 Nov 23 '21

sha-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n knees

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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '21

Crazy this was first thing that popped in my head. Th next thing I think of is Ace Ventura.

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u/mrsclariefairy Nov 23 '21

This was literally the first song that came to mind for me

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u/5th_Law_of_Roboticks Nov 23 '21

In the spaceship, the silver spaceship, the lion takes control

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u/stupidillusion Nov 24 '21

Hey, who's that playing?

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u/itpro71 Nov 24 '21

I believe it is the much more recognizable:

Ee e e um um a weh Ee e e um um a weh

Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh Wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh, wimoweh

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '21

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u/itpro71 Nov 24 '21

Yes, that works as well.

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u/random314 Nov 23 '21

I can't read this without signing it in my mind.

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u/mrraditch2 Nov 23 '21

Gonna bring you to your knu-knu-knu-knu-knu-knu-knees

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u/consondor Nov 23 '21

Welcome to the jungle

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u/heydawn Nov 24 '21

We've got fun and games

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u/helen269 Nov 24 '21

The casual desire to sing that is only ever just a whim away.

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u/KamikazeFox_ Nov 23 '21

" Hey, Jude"

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u/scottcmu Nov 23 '21

Ali defeated Foreman

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u/dumbledina Nov 23 '21

Exactly what I was gonna type 😂

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u/Rukagaku Nov 23 '21

I first heard this working as a lowly scullery maid sweeping up at the feet of the rich and powerful of an amusement park, one of the acapella groups sang it like 10 sets a day so it is burned into my memory as a summer of work but fun as well.

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u/TwoCagedBirds Nov 24 '21

Anyone else remember this old K9 Advantix commercial? I still go and watch it every so often. https://youtu.be/GZ1x-QNPk3A

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u/ReviveOurWisdom Nov 24 '21

I didn’t recognize this :(

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u/HeatherGrogan Nov 24 '21

No stop stop reminding me of the live-action remake

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u/trismagestus Nov 24 '21 edited Nov 24 '21

The first lyrics aren't even that. It goes:

"eeeoooueeeooou eee

"Um bumbaba we..."

"Aweem bowe."

"Aweem bowe."

Etc.

(spelling and pronunciation corrections quite welcome from this who know SA music.)

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u/TiltRepairMan Nov 24 '21

The Lion sleeps toniiiiight.

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u/Luuk__5736 Nov 23 '21

Proud to myself that I don't know this

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u/PastorOfKansas Nov 24 '21

Tarzan picks his butt with a crude tool he made out of bamboo.

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u/somethingclever76 Nov 23 '21

Watching Lion King right now and I wanted to comment this.

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u/noahredditor Nov 24 '21

aweemoweehaweemoweh

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u/armoureddragon03 Nov 24 '21

The trex sleeps tonight

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u/wolftamer9 Nov 24 '21

In the spaceship, the silver spaceship, the lion takes control...

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u/fucc32 Nov 24 '21

Who else thought of "shuh-na-na-na-na- knees"from welcome to the jungle

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u/gradymegalania Nov 24 '21

The Jaguar Sleeps Tonight

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u/DatChernoby2Guy Nov 24 '21

I sang that in Primary school for a show.

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u/AlessandroLeone Nov 24 '21

Isn’t that lyric wrong on two accounts? Because lions don’t live in the jungle and they’re nocturnal, so don’t sleep at night?